Raindrops aren’t teardrop-shaped—they’re more like hamburger buns, shaped by surface tension and air resistance as they fall ...

People usually only have hours of notice in advance. The disaster in Texas was a worst-case scenario.

The top remains spherical, even on bigger falling raindrops, because surface tension—those water molecules clinging to each other—is greater than the pressure of airflow above.

When raindrops fall from the sky, they can produce a small amount of energy that can be harvested and turned into electricity. It is a small-scale version of hydropower, which uses the kinetic ...

The falling of raindrops embodies and reflects this unity, reminding us that every individual is part of nature’s metabolism, or rather, a cycle of life that encompasses the entire world.

Raindrops falling on the roofs of new buildings in one south London borough will be recycled in future. Southwark Council has agreed that all new developments need to include rain catching devices to ...

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